[thelist] Does the Americans with Disabilities, ADA, act pertain to Internet Content?

Bill Mason evolt at accessibleinter.net
Wed Oct 9 15:53:09 CDT 2002


At 09:53 AM 10/09/2002, Brian W King wrote:
> >I believe the ADA says that companies above 15 employees  must follow the
> >law's mandates.  I doubt your personal site qualifies.
>
>I think you missed the point on the article.  It states that as the law
>currently is written, there is not statute.  There is no law that defines
>how websites are to be displayed or coded.  Until one of these cases
>actually makes it through the court system, there probably won't be one
>either.

I think that's pretty obvious, yes.  I was speaking hypothetically, as this
whole debate already is until/unless a court makes law on the whole
issue.  Expect that this airline case will settle and the issue will just
keep hanging on.

Bill Mason
Accessible Internet
evolt at accessibleinter.net
http://www.accessibleinter.net/





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